Local Policy Analyst

6 days ago

Stretford, United Kingdom NFP People LTD Remote Work Freelance Full time

Local Policy Analyst

We are delighted to share this new and exciting opportunity for a Local Policy Analyst to join a dynamic organisation.

Position: Local Policy Analyst

Location: Holyoake House, Manchester/Hybrid

Salary: £33,570 per annumHours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

Contract: Fixed Term, 2 years

Closing Date: Midnight, Sunday 29th September 2024

Interviews: Week commencing 7th October 2024, in Manchester

Benefits: Flexible working options, pension scheme, discounted travel to work schemes, employee wellbeing assistance programme including free eye tests, personal and professional growth and development, including coaching and trade union.

We reserve the right to close the role early should a suitable candidate be found before this date. Applicants are required to submit a current CV and cover letter.

About the role:

As a Local Policy Analyst, you will produce evidence-based policy analysis to support local co-operative growth, ensuring that local co-operatives and national stakeholders are actively involved in the policy-making process. You will assist local policymakers in transforming policy ambitions into impactful interventions, develop business cases, and design local programmes for cooperative development.

You will work within the Reclaiming Our Regional Economies (RORE) programme, which brings together communities and leaders to reform regional economies. Your role will involve collaborating with the RORE partnership and the organisation’s Policy Team to apply your expertise in developing effective policies and programmes.

Key responsibilities include:

Produce evidence-based policy analysis into effective ways to support local co-operative growth, including:

  • Produce analysis of how co-operative growth could align with and contribute to the achievement of local priorities and strategies across different partners.
  • Produce research and analysis on best practices and ‘what works’ in supporting local co-operative growth.
  • Horizon scan for best practices, emerging issues and policy/legislative changes which are relevant to co-operative development and growth.

Ensure local co-operatives and national co-operative stakeholders are involved and empowered in the policymaking process, including:

  • Facilitate co-productive policy design and development processes.
  • Engage stakeholders in the policymaking process.

Support local policymakers in partner areas to turn policy ambition to support co-operative growth into impactful interventions and practice, including:

  • Provide advice and guidance to local policymakers and practitioners on best practice approaches to developing interventions which support co-operative growth.
  • Support partners to identify creative ways to overcome blocks and barriers to translating policy which supports co-operative growth into practice.

Help develop business cases and design local programmes and interventions for co-operative growth, including:

  • Produce engaging and clear written resources including workshop materials, reports, presentations and guidance materials, as needed.
  • Conduct thematic or other analysis of data to inform the development of an evidence base.

About you:

To be successful in this role, you will be enthusiastic about the organisation and its mission, and you will have experience of working at a place-based level, such as within local government, local infrastructure or the community/VCSE sector.

  • Experience in evidence-based policy analysis, research and development, including analyzing qualitative and quantitative data and presenting insights.
  • Able to understand, communicate, review and synthesize information generated from quantitative research, data and evidence.
  • Knowledge of local economic development and diverse business forms such as co-operatives, social enterprise and third-sector.
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal to a wide range of audiences, including local government and project partners.
  • Strong relationship, partnership and client management skills. Able to adapt style to influence and generate credibility across a diverse range of audiences and situations.
  • Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise work to meet deadlines, including management of projects.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure, trouble-shoot, and meet short- and long-term deadlines.

About the organisation:

As the voice of the UK’s co-operative movement, we empower and support co-operative enterprises with specialised knowledge and expertise, to grow the co-operative economy and create a fairer society. From football clubs and farms to convenience stores and pubs, there are more than 7,000 co-operatives in the UK, each owned and controlled by their members and based on shared principles and values. By promoting shared wealth through member ownership, we are committed to enabling anyone in the UK to form, or join, thriving and sustainable co-ops.

As an organisation we are led by our unwavering values of solidarity, self-responsibility, equity, and honesty, therefore if you share these core values, we would be delighted to receive your application.

Other roles you may have experience in could include Policy, Local Policy, Policy Advisor, Policy Officer, Public Affairs Officer, Policy Analyst, Local Policy Officer etc.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

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